Fig Dish was among the many alternative organizations swept up within the signing frenzy that occurred in Chicago within the wake from the explosion from the grunge picture within the Northwest. Individuals were looking for another Seattle, and Chicago was nearly as good a town as any, having a roster that included Liz Phair, Smashing Pumpkins, and Desire Overkill. The music group started in the first ’90s when guitarists Blake Smith and Rick Ness remaining their respective rings and made a decision to play collectively. Adding drummer Andy Hamilton and bassist Mike Willison, they find the name Fig Dish and started to launch homemade singles of the Replacements-esque rock and roll. The music group made a decision to try an test, they delivered demos to main label reps with an email attached stating “Hey (complete the empty): I captured this business last weekend, plus they had been amazing. Examine ’em out! Your pal, Steve.” Many uncomfortable label reps offered them a tale about their friend “Steve” suggesting the music group, but finally an A&R guy from Polydor found out their singles by himself and provided them an area for the label. The music group documented That’s What Like Songs Often Perform within three weeks to be signed, as well as the album premiered in 1995 with many tours following. Once the solitary “Seed” began to strike alternative rock and roll radio, the music group discovered a blizzard in Nebraska which ruined their vehicle and their equipment. That night time the music group was recovering in the hotel once the shell-shocked Hamilton informed them that he was departing the music group to study regulation. The music group stepped back to the studio room for When Shove DATES BACK to Push another year, however they had been very unimpressed making use of their scenario. The album premiered with zero advertising from Polydor, therefore the music group decided to choose a fresh label. While looking, they made a decision to simply kill the music group and focus on additional tasks. Willison and Smith began Caviar, while Rick Ness began a music group under the basic moniker of Ness.
Music Songs Quiet Storm King, Lemonader, Rollover, Please, Weak and Mean, It's Your Ceiling, Bury Me, When Shirts Get Tight, Wrong Nothing, Resistance Is Futile, First History, Chew Toy, Pretty Never Hurts, Dare You to Vanish, Going Gone, Wheel Holders, Sleep Startles, They Can Only Hurt You, Spit the Part, All Eyes Upon You, I Just Want What You Want, Don't Come Around Here No More, Sinking Feeling, Seeds, Kung Fu Fighting, Nimble, Head Over Heels, Come On, Bend, Serene, Hidden Track, [silence]
Albums That's What Love Songs Often Do, When Shove Goes Back to Push
Facts
Filmography
Awards
Salaries
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Trademarks
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Fact
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Thinks movies should open with a big, showy scene.
2
Grew up next door to a family of 8 with six children.
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Feig used to do stand-up and says he puts his movies together like he used to do his shows. He screens them multiple times, keeping the jokes that get big laughs and reworking those that don't.
4
Describes himself as the world's biggest Mystery Science Theater geek.
5
Paul's father was of Ashkenazi Jewish descent (from Hungary and Romania). Paul's mother had British ancestry.
6
Saw Woody Allen's Take the Money and Run (1969) when he was 9 years old and was so enthralled by it, he still remembers how "It came on and it was like a religious experience".
7
Has directed 1 actress to an Oscar nomination: Melissa McCarthy (Best Supporting Actress, Bridesmaids (2011)).
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His last name is pronounced Feeg.
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The title of his memoir "Superstud" is based on a line from the Freaks and Geeks (1999) episode "Looks and Books".
10
In his television series Freaks and Geeks (1999), the fictitious town of Chippewa was loosely based on the area surrounding Mt. Clemens, Michigan, where he grew up.
11
In 1985 he won $29,000 on The $10,000 Pyramid (1973) game show (renamed at that time as "The $25,000 Pyaramid") and used the money to finance a run at stand-up comedy.
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Raised in Mt. Clemens, Michigan.
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Graduated Chippewa Valley High School Class of 1980.
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Once worked as a tour guide at Universal Studios in Hollywood.
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Graduated from USC School of Cinema-Television (1984).
Actor
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Ski Patrol
1990
Stanley
Thirtysomething
1990
TV Series
Focus Group Member
Dirty Dancing
1988-1989
TV Series
Norman Bryant
The Unnaturals
1989
TV Series
Reoccurring characters
Newhart
1988
TV Series
Bruce
Three O'Clock High
1987
Hall Monitor
Zombie High
1987
Emerson
The Facts of Life
1986
TV Series
Ron
Song of Back and Neck
2017
post-production
Spy
2015
Drunken Guest at Paris Hotel (uncredited)
Maron
2014
TV Series
Warren
The Heat
2013/I
Doctor (uncredited)
The Office
2013
TV Series
The Animal Trainer
NTSF:SD:SUV
2012
TV Series
OCD Detective
Bad Teacher
2011
Dad at Carwash
Bridesmaids
2011/I
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Nurse Jackie
2010
TV Series
Mr. Spagnolo
Vote Garner!
2009
Video short
Dr. Elias Bezelle
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
2007
Different DJ (uncredited)
Knocked Up
2007
Fantasy Baseball Guy
Arrested Development
2005
TV Series
Magician
I Am David
2003
American Man
Stealing Harvard
2002
Electrician
Bad Dog
2000
Short
Messenger
Freaks and Geeks
1999
TV Series
Alex the Guitarist
The Drew Carey Show
1998
TV Series
Worker #1
Life Sold Separately
1997
Clark
Statical Planets
1997
Renfester
Ellen
1997
TV Series
Peterson
Men Behaving Badly
1997
TV Series
Nelson
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
1996-1997
TV Series
Mr. Eugene Pool
My Fellow Americans
1996
Reporter #2
That Thing You Do!
1996
KMPC D.J.
The Louie Show
1996
TV Series
Dr. Jake Reinhardt
The TV Wheel
1995
TV Movie
Various
Heavy Weights
1995
Tim
Hardball
1994
TV Series
Agent #1
Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult
1994
Oscar Audience Member
The Good Life
1994
TV Series
Waiter / Video Clerk
Roseanne
1993
TV Series
Pete
The Jackie Thomas Show
1992-1993
TV Series
Bobby Wynn
The Edge
1992-1993
TV Series
Various Characters
Deep Dish TV
1992
TV Movie
Get a Life
1991
TV Series
Mark
Good Sports
1991
TV Series
Leash
Zoo Radio
1990
Chester Drawer (as Skylar Billing)
It's Garry Shandling's Show.
1990
TV Series
Chester Bass
Producer
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Untitled Mother-Daughter/Action Comedy Project
2017
producer post-production
The Heat 2
producer announced
Ghostbusters
2016
executive producer
The Peanuts Movie
2015
producer
Other Space
2015
TV Series executive producer - 8 episodes
Spy
2015
producer
It's Better in Italian
2015
Documentary short executive producer
The Heat
2013/I
executive producer
Ronna & Beverly
2012
TV Series executive producer - 6 episodes
Bridesmaids
2011/I
executive producer
Nurse Jackie
2010
TV Series co-executive producer - 12 episodes
The Office
2008-2009
TV Series co-executive producer - 26 episodes
Freaks and Geeks
TV Series co-executive producer - 10 episodes, 2000 supervising producer - 8 episodes, 1999 - 2000
Director
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Heat 2
announced
Ghostbusters
2016
directed by
Other Space
2015
TV Series
Spy
2015
People in New Jersey
2013
TV Movie
The Heat
2013/I
Bridesmaids
2011/I
The Office
2005-2011
TV Series 15 episodes
Nurse Jackie
2009-2010
TV Series 10 episodes
Bored to Death
2009
TV Series 2 episodes
Parks and Recreation
2009
TV Series 1 episode
Ronna & Beverly
2009
TV Movie
Weeds
2005-2007
TV Series 3 episodes
Mad Men
2007
TV Series 1 episode
30 Rock
2007
TV Series 1 episode
Unaccompanied Minors
2006
Arrested Development
2004-2005
TV Series 7 episodes
Early Bird
2005
TV Movie
I Am David
2003
Undeclared
2002
TV Series 1 episode
Freaks and Geeks
2000
TV Series 1 episode
Life Sold Separately
1997
Writer
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Untouchables
announced
Ghostbusters
2016
written by
Other Space
TV Series 1 episode, 2015 created by - 6 episodes, 2015 creator - 1 episode, 2015 written by - 1 episode, 2015
Spy
2015
written by
Sick in the Head
2003
TV Movie creator
I Am David
2003
screenplay
Freaks and Geeks
TV Series created by - 18 episodes, 1999 - 2000 written by - 6 episodes, 1999 - 2000
Life Sold Separately
1997
The TV Wheel
1995
TV Movie
Soundtrack
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Freaks and Geeks
TV Series performer - 3 episodes, 1999 - 2000 writer - 1 episode, 2000
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Quote
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[Twitter reply on Sep 24 2015] You've been ranting at me and my cast [of Ghostbusters (2016)] for months with misogyny and insults. So go fuck yourself. Goodnight. #enough
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To me, comedy is drama.
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[re Take the Money and Run (1969)] I had never seen comedy like that. It was subversive and smart, and yet so silly at the same time. I wanted to be an actor at that point in my life [9 years old] and when I realized that [Woody] Allen wrote and directed and starred in this film, that really kind of set the course for what I thought my life was going to be.
4
The mockumentary is a perfect form for comedy, because it allows it to be behavioral and real and feel in the moment. Since things are supposed to be happening in the real world and captured in the moment by handheld cameras that are surprised by the unexpected actions of the characters, it allows you to create looser situations that play funnier if they're done right. I've used this form on The Office (2005) and Arrested Development (2003), and the tone is great. Plus it allows you to work with no budget.
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When I was an actor, I was in this horrendous movie called Ski Patrol (1990). And I have so many young people come up to me and say it's their favorite movie. I guess it just depends when you watched it and what your relationship was to it at the age you saw it. Time seems to be the great equalizer.
6
I think TV is better than movies these days. It has finally embraced serializations, so basically what you are getting is a never-ending movie on television. I am obsessed with trying to figure out what's a great serialized comedy, and how to do it.
7
When I was a kid, I used to hate watching kids on TV who were smart or snappy. I liked watching adults being stupid. That's why I liked Monty Python, because these were adults acting insane, whereas when a kid came on, hey, he knew everything, and I was like, 'I don't wanna see that, because I don't know everything, and I don't wanna see a kid who's more together than me.'
8
The director is the only person on the set who has seen the film. Your job as a director is to show up every day and know where everything will fit into the film.
9
What's great about the geek spirit is that life never seems to stop us, and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm, our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. We keep our sense of humor, we protect our dignity, we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the very next day.
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At the end of the day the question comes, what are you doing for the world? You have to try to do something that's going to add something positive.
11
Every director should take an acting class.
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Trademark
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After _Bridesmaids (2011)_ his work largely consists of female-driven comedies, usually featuring Melissa McCarthy.
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